The New MYTHBUSTERS Series Will Be Hosted by The Nerdist's Kyle Hill
After Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman decided to end their long-running Mythbusters series, the Science Channel decided they wanted to keep the series going but without any of the original talent that made it so good. The network opted to develop a reality series to find a new team of talent to host the show.
The series will be called Mythbusters: The Search, and they have hired Nerdist's Kyle Hill to be the host of the series that will find new hosts. The series will follow a group of contestants who all have backgrounds in science and building skills, and each week they will be challenged with busting certain myths.
Marc Etkind, General Manager of Science Channel, had this to say in a statement:
“MythBusters is the most iconic science series in the history of television, and Kyle is an enormous talent and the ultimateMythBusters super fan. With his encyclopedic knowledge of every MythBusters episode and stunt ever attempted, he is the ideal host to introduce our all-new myths and potential future mythbusters.”
Sounds like they should have just hired the guy to actually host the new Mythbusters show that they are trying to find hosts for! If you're not familiar with Hill, we've posted a few episodes from his Behind Science web-series on the site in the past. He's actually a pretty solid choice to host a Mythbusters show like this.
You can check some of those Behind Science episodes that he did if you click on any of the following links. The Science Behind Why Tony Stark’s Iron Man Suit Doesn’t Kill Him, The Science of How Daredevil Can See Without Sight, The Science Behind DOCTOR WHO's Sonic Screwdriver, and The Science Behind Captain America's Super-Soldier Serum.
Via: EW